Archive for the 'Free Agents' Tag Under 'Angels' Category

SI.Com's Jon Heyman made his predictions for where 15 of the top free agents will land this winter and he has the Angels as the favorites to land not only outfielder Carl Crawford and third baseman Adrian Beltre but the top reliever available as well, Rafael Soriano.

FOX Sports.com's panel of five baseball writers (Tracy Ringolsby, Ken Rosenthal, Jon Paul Morosi, Bob Klapisch and Dayn Perry) weighed in with their predictions for 10 free agents. Three of the five had the Angels landing Crawford. Two of the five had Beltre signing with them. And Soriano wasn't included in their list.

Meanwhile over at MLBTradeRumors.com, five of their writers weighed in with their predictions for the top 50 free agents.

Might as well schedule the press conference now -- all five predicted Crawford would land with the Angels. Two of the five said Beltre would also be an Angel (the other three had him re-signing with the Red Sox) and four of five had Soriano coming to Anaheim (one had him signing with the Diamondbacks).

With the conclusion of the World Series, baseball's off-season has begun. There have been some adjustments to the off-season calendar this season. First up -- teams have only a five-day window of exclusivity (shaved down from 15) to negotiate with their own free agents.

That means free agents can begin changing teams as of 12:01 a.m. on Sunday morning.